Woman Gets the World's First Ticket for Driving With Google Glass Cecilia Abadie made history in a way she didn't expect Tuesday night — when a California Highway Patrol officer gave her the world's first known ticket for wearing Google Glass while driving. Abadie is a project manager at Full Swing Golf in San Diego, and an enthusiastic Glass Explorer. She told her story, and posted the ticket in question, on Google+. The first violation on the ticket is driving in excess of 65 mph — not an uncommon violation in California. But the second violation reads “Driving with monitor visible to driver (Google Glass)." To make that part of the ticket stick, however, the officer in question will have to prove that Abadie had the screen active at the time. She says it wasn't. California Vehicle Code section 27602 says you can't drive if a video screen "is operating and the monitor, screen, or display is visible to the driver while driving the motor vehicle." There are exceptions for GPS and…Read More

Google may be getting Glass's fashion situation under control by partnering with Warby Parker, but Glass's potential to be dangerously distracting still seems like a problem. And where there's a problem, West Virginian legislators know to step in with preemptive regulation. Apparently. Inspired by a CNET review of Glass, Gary G. Howell, a member…Read More